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Bent County register., 1887-08-06
LOCAL NoTEs.
Beautiful sun sets.

Fred, Lee has sold his news stand
A good shower Thursday night.
Mrs. Metcalf has moved in town.
Joe. Metcalf has lost his mule.
Colorado climate is good enough.
! IL. F. Sharpless Notary Public. If.
II meyer gets too hot TO go to a
show,
We had fine rain last Saturday
evening
ID. Igo was down TO Garden City
Thursday.
Word was received here u dav
that T.. NJ. Noble died at Trinidad
this morning.
~rhe arrival Of trains draws n crowd
10 the depot.
+ 7. Lee proved up on his land
Monday.
W. II. sliie was down from Day
ton this week.
City marshal Tolbcrt is home from
trip to Kansas.
There will bo big dsmand for
houses this fall
The Stock Exchange has up a new
hitching rack
4 new saloon opened on Railroad
Ayrnue north side.
The City Bakery has the loulest
sign in town.
Al. Merryman came up from Villas
Saturday last.
The advertising committee go east
in few days.
7. ]. Dugan has been out of the
city sll week
At the present writing Bent is a
republican county.
w. |. Crldiock went up to Rocky
Ford Thursday night.
\. 4. Bent went down to Anthony,
kansas. Wednesday.
4. 4, Lee will build q residence in
the west side Addition.
1t may be dull in other towns, bu,
Lamar holds her own.
There is a new candy stand just
north of the postofice.
+ r. Mcbride returned from Pu-
eblo Tuesday night.
Strain It Co., have sold their trans.
fer team 10 !. Martin.
Y 4 little son of attorney Butler is
quite sick with fever. 4
: Mrs. T. a. Wilson was quite sick
for a few days last week.
y ear of hay went north to the
graders camp Monday,
Miss Lizzie Rail has been visiting
at Garden City foF week.
A change of few minutes has
been made on the arrival of trains.
Sun-ilowers are growing ali over
town. good Indication of rich land
Eastern Colorado is settling up
with families from western Kansas.
The majority of teams used in
fieighling ont of Lamar are mules.
The alfalfa sowu last spring looks
tine. it has made good growth.
a pair of hay scales are being put
up III front Of Kirks' feed store.
A. II. Vandevert will open drug
store at Las .hnimas next. week.
a deaf and dumb girl was soliciting
assistance on the street yesterday,
Judge Frybassss, of Syracuse and
Carlton, was in town Monday,
Will Craddock came down, from
Rocky Ford last Saturday p,ght.
Mr.. Vandevert returned from q
trip TO Missouai Saturday night last.
d. S. Lowe put in last week look
ing over tho country north Of Lamar.
Mrs. Weir has plowed FIVE aofes
on her trce CLAIM and fenced zen
acres.
One of the operators at the depot
pulled his freight for Texas Wednes-
day.
+. j. Rabb moved his furniture
Bent County register., 1887-08-06

TER office. If.
One hundred and thirty.five guests
registered ut the Berger Hotel from
last Saturday to Friday night. This
number does not include the CITY
custom.
Maj. Young and family arrived
here Thursday from Iowa. The
Major has the material here and will
start paper at Brookfield.
We noticed three subscription pa
pers on the street yesterday morning,
aud there may have been more. This
's great town for subscriptions.
Z. ID. Barker bought a new mower
yesterday and went right to work to
cut seyenty-tive tons of hay he has
contracted, he SAYS there is plenty of
good hay north of the river.
There will be n meeting of those
interested in the proposed Myler
ditch next Thursday, August nth a,
. o'clock pm. at Goodale & Cooper's
office.
Lamar is the natural wholesale
point of eastern Colorado. We have
majority of the trade and little
work will greatly increase it.
\ call for a ditch meeting found
IN to-day's paper shows that the
farmers mean business. bitches
may not be needed bnt they are
mighty handy in dry time, and all
countries have dry seasons.
W. B. Masterson associate editor
of the advocate" arrived in town
Monday. his work on the paper will
probably be spicy but as he saws not
of malicious nature, he has work
to do and will do it with his accus-
tom energy.
The accounts of Spivey 4 Holmes
Bros, have been placed in our hands
for collection with instructions to
push at once. Those knowing them
selves indebted to the above firm will
save attorneys fees by settling at
once as we shall act according to
instructions given.
1AMAP l. DouySy,
Over Bank of Lamar.
Office of the Lamar Water Com
pany, Lamar. Colo. July 90 1887.
TO CONTRACTORS;
Proposals are invited for the con,
struction of well. The proportions
and workmanship of which are to be
like the Z. r. well at Lamar, except
ing the new we'll shall be ten feet
deeper. The Water Company will
undertake to keep the water out of
the way OF the workmen.
Address Il. DICKSON PRICE.
Sec'y.
Stone Wanted.
25 cords more or less, good stone
delivered on grounds in Lamar.
Address T. d. PRICE,
Sec'y Lamar Water Co.
Chas. Reitler
Has sold his stock of groceries to
NJ. l.. Swift & Co., to make room for
the mammoth srock of dry goods,
clothing, boots and shoes, that is
coming.
Great Rductiora in Lamar.
Having lately bought one hundred
cars of Michigan pine lumber on a
low market. we are prepared to give
our customers lower rates than any
other yard west of Topeka. Allow
us to figure on your orders and we
will convince you of the fact.
THE r. II. PORTER Lumber Co.
South of Depot,
Lamar, Colorado.
TIE REV. GEO. II. TIIAYER, of Bourbon.
Indiana, says: "Both myself and wife owe
our lives to SHILOH's C0NsMPTINN Cure.
Are you made miserable by Indigestion.
Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of appetite
Yellow skim. Shiloh's Vitalizer Is u positive
cure. For sale by j. W. Decker.
why will You cough when shlioh's cure
will give Immediate relief. Price 10 cts. 80 cts
and 81 For sale by j. W. Decker.
''HACKMETACK," lasting and fragrant
perfume. Price - and fifty cents.
SHiLOH'S Cure will Immediately relieve
Group, Whooping Cough and Bronchitis.
Bent County register., 1887-08-06
For sale by Decker 81 Brooks.
LAMAR TRANSFER co. GIVE
NOTICE.

On and after June 9th, the fol-
lowing schedule of rates will go in
TO effect. Packages delivered to any
part of the city for a charge of fif-
teen cents. 500 lbs or less fifteen
cents; 500 to 1000 twenty-five cents;
1000 I, 1000 thirty-five cents; 1000
or over fiftycents. Car load rates
given by applying at Santa Fc depot.
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The Trial of Aaron Burr.

Immediately upon the close of his
Office as Vice President, Burr started
on an expedition to the Mississippi
Valley, to work UP among the people
of that locality his scheme for estab-
fishing an Independent republic west
of the Mississippi He found number
of citizens and some Government Off
Gals ready to fall in with his plans,
and there seems little doubt that for a
time James Wilkinson, General-in-
Chief of the army and Governor of
Louisiana Territory, was inclined IA
vorably toward the scheme. Probably
this was because he was not aware of
its extent and enormity at first, for
later he made every effort to thwart
the plan. and it was through his infor-
mat on that the attention of the Gov
eminent was called to Burr's plans. In
November, 1906, Burr was arrested
and summoned before grand jury at
Frankfort, Ky, but no bill was found
against him, owing to difficulty of pro-
curing witnesses, and he was released.
and his friends celebrated his triumph
with a grand ball. But meanwhile
President Jackson had commissioned
Graham, the Secretary of the Or
leans Territory, to investigate the re-
ports about Burr, and Immediately
afterward he issued proclamation
against IAN unlawful scheme set on
foot for invading the Spanish domin-
IONS" Graham, securing from the
Legislatures of Ohio and kentucky the
requisite authority, seized number of
boats OH the Muskingum and Ohio
Rivers which Burr had fitted out for
his expedition. Burr, hearing of the e
seizures, made hrs escape to the west
shore of the Mississippi, but BODY OF
militia was sent, under the Presidents
proclamation, to arrest him. He had
previously had all his cases of arms
thrown into the river. and therefore
assumed the pretense of utter innocen
Of any hostile intentions, demanding
that he and all those with him should
be searched, and his boats examined
for evidence of his revolutionary de-
signs. As nothing of the sort was found,
a strong sentiment in his favor was
aroused. He was brought before the
Supreme Court of the Territory, but
the Grand Jury not only refused to
bring any indictment against him, but
presented charges against the Governor
for calling out the militia to arrest him.
Burr, now free, resolved to disband
all his followers and leave the country.
But before he could accomplish this
he was again arrested. An Indictment
for high treason was found against him
by the Grand Jury of the district Of
Virginia. He was charged with levying
war, by the collection of armed men,
within the dominion of Virginia. He
was also charged with concocting a
scheme for the overthrow of the ma
tional authority in the Western States
and Territories. AS there was not suf-
fcient evidence against him, however.
on this trial, he was acquitted.-Inte''
o. can.
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Advice TO Old Men.

In the matter of advice old men have
been neglected. Young men, girls,
married women, and boys have all re-
ceived the philanthropic attention of
newspaper writer's, but it seems that
no one has the time to drop few use
ful hints to the man who has done so
much for the world. The following
suggestions are freely given:
Old men should be careful Of their
health. They should not go to the
theater in damp weather without a
shirt 1t is also advisable to wear
sonnet hing on the feet.
Old men will find it 40 their interest
not to remain on railroad track until
after train has passed. Well-read
physicians now generally agree that
heavy freight trains, especially late at
night, are hard to digest
Old men, especially in a cold eli
mate, should not go in swimming until
after the first of Janu ry, nor rec!ine
on ice in the evening.
An old man should marry n very
young woman. 1t teaches him that
there is nothing in life after all. and
reconcileS him to death.
BY observing these and other rules
some old men have attained great age.
-ArkanSdtC TrGDeier.
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Snake Stories.

Mr.. Josh Bailey, of Brookvlle, Flor
ida. was lounging in hammock one
hot afternoon when an ominous noise
warned him that rattlesnake was near
by and ready for business. Mr.. Bailey
tumbled out of the hammock just in
time to avoid the reptiles spring, but
recovered himself quickly and caught
the snake b. the neck while it was still
in m dair. Then he took the vicious
reptile back to the woodshed, and lay
ing Its head on block chopped it off
with Ratchet. The snake was u
feet long and nearly ten inches in cir
conference. 1t struggled desperately
while in Mr.. Bailey's grasp, and wind
ing its coils around his arm almost
crushed it.
Sheriff Roberts, of Hart County,
Georgia, was awakened from sound
sleep by the clammy touch of huge
snake which craw!ed directly over his
face. The reptiles belly felt like big
icicle, according to the Sheriff's ac-
count of the incident, and seemed to
take an hour in passing. Finally, to
his great relief, the reptile drew it's
Shiny length away, and the Sheriff
struck light and tried to find it. But
the snake had disappeared, and, after
a few minutes search, M. Roberts went
back to bed. In the morning the serv-
ant while making up the bed found a
chicken snake, six feet long, coiled up
between the feather bed and the mat
tress.
Mr.. Fletch Norris, of Montezuma,
Ca, burned brush heap down in his
swamp near the river, not long ago,
and threw into the pile good-sized
moccasin which his boys had captured
that afternoon. A week afterward he
visited the spot with his dog and saw
wriggling about iii the dead ashes the
head and a few inches OF the neck of
the snake, while its body had burned
to a crisp and broken off, The dog
started IN to have some fun with the
remains of the reptile, but was bitten
on the paw and gave it up.
A Pennsylvan farmer removed a
stump from field recently and took
from root what he thought was lot
of knotted rope. After the supposed
rope had lain in the sun awhile the
farmer discovered that it was mass of
copperhead snakes twisted and inter-
laced together with the heads outward.
They h ssed and squirmed in horrible
manner. Just then the farmers hired
man came up, and with q couple OF
good clubs they succeeded in dispatch
ing nearly two hundred serpents.
Capt. Jack Bridges, of Columbus,
Ohio, brought home with him from q
hunting trip in Mexico RATHER which
beats anything of the kind ever seen in
Ohio. 1t is twelve feet long, has TWEEN
ty-six rattles and button, and is cal
culated to be able to spring seventeen
feet. The Captain says he bagged it
near Chihuahua while hunting for
other game
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MECHANICAL.

A NEW regulator for governing the
flow OF gas into the furnace of o steam
boiler is made by having two cham
bers, one for steam and the other for
gas, each having diaphragm in con-
nection with valve-openings and con-
Meeting lever between the two, whereby
an increase of pressure in the steam
generator simultaneously moves the
diaphragms in opposite directions,
thus diminishing the flow of gas by re-
ducing the size of the valve-opening.
To CONVEY the iron ore from the San
Juan mines in Spain, which lie behind
mountain, to the trunk line, an end
less chain railway two miles in length
is used. From the tips on the trunk
line to the summit of the mountain,
which is 1,712 feet above them. is dis
lance of 2, 100 yards, an average gradient
OF 20. 4 per cent, the maximum gradient
being 43 per cent. The surplus power
on the one side of the mountain is uti!-
lied in hauling up the ore from the
mine on the other.
The measurement of the candle
power of electric or any other light is
accomplished by comparing the shadow
cast by a rod in the light OF standard
candle with the shadow cast by the light
to be tested. BY moving the latter
toward or away from the rod point
will be reached at which the shadow of
both will be of equal intensity; and the
intensity of each is directly proportional
to the squares of their distance from
the shadows; for instance, if the light
to be tested is ten times the distancs of
the candle, its intensity Of light, or IL
Illuminating power, is 100 times as great.
A MACHINE has been brought out for
cutting up old timber into tirewood,
and tying it in bundles ready for sale.
1t consists essentially of chopping-
knife actuated like a mortise chisel.
The timber is fed into the machine in
lengths of about six inches, and the
chisel splits them up along the grain
of the wood. They pass out of the
machine into box, which, by agita-
ton, settles them into the smallest
bulk. They are then formed into
bundles by mechanical means, COM
pressed, and bound by wire. A fire.
woodworking machine, worked by a
pedal for smaller requirements, has
also been introduced. -Casseips.
RETAINED in perfect running order
in the United States Steamboat In
spector's Office in this city is an oscil-
lating engine constructed in 1909 by
Daniel French. 1t is only of model
size, and is probably the first engine
of the kind ever constructed. It's de-
scription is simple. Having its piston
rod attached directly to the crank-pin,
as the crank revolves the cylinder os-
ciliates upon trunnions, one on each
side of it, through which the steam en-
ters and leaves the steam-chest The
valves are within the steam-chests, oscil-
lating with the cylinder. 1t is perhaps
as satisfactory an engine of this class
as has ever been built, for it is well
known that the mechanism of the actu-
ating valves in oscllating steam en-
gines has seldom proved perfectly sat
isfactory in its operation.-LoattsriUe
COuri
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~The inducements are very strong not to
go in this way. l think | will begin my
horseback experience here"
He found the road almost as bad as it
had been described to him, and though a
horseman can get along much better on a
poor highway than can a vehicle, 1t was
near ten o'clock at night when he rode into
Sunderland. Had not the distance he had
ridden, and the time it had required,
persuaded him that he must be at the end
of bis weary days journey, he might have
doubted the fact. Late as 1t was, there
was moon which showed him settlement
of scattered buildings, put up with little
care in the arrangement OF streets, and
docking not at all like the thrifty and we'll
ordered village near his Eastern home.
But everything yields to hunger and ia
tigue, and he was not just then disposed to
be critical. HIS friend mt the lake town,
who treated everything in that new country
as the proper subject of a joke, had told
him that there were two taverns in Sunder-
land, both of which were about as bad as
they could be.
But which is the best?" Mr.. Kinsman
asked.
well, sir, there amt any best. Go to
either of EN-, and you'll wish you'd gone
TO the other"
not think il necessary 10 spend any time in
examining and choosing. He stopped ut a
large frame house before which a round
sign in frame on high post swung and
creaked in the wind, and shouted loud
"Hilioa" The door opened. and from a
lighted room a man appeared in the door
way.
"Can you take care of me and my Eorse
to-nigbty" the traveller asked.
al suppose so. Here, Sam; take the
animal Come this way, sir. We can't do
very well by you travel is small, and
times hard. Sam, tell some of those lazy
women 10 get the gentleman something to
eat"
The room into which the landlord con-
Quoted his guest was the bar-room; and 10
n man of Mr.. Kinsman's refined taste aud
correct principles it presented n repulsive
scene. IL was odorous with strong tobacco;
glasses and decanters filled the shelves be-
hind the counters. At each of two tables in
the middle Of the floor sat four men, the
landlord being one of the number, deeply
engaged in playing cards by the light oil
rta!!ow candles. Small piles of silver
money on the tables showed that they were
gambling. The faces of oil were intiamed
With drink, and occasionally n half-sup-
pressed oath was heard. So di agreeable
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which the papoose is carried, slung
over the shoulders of its mother, rather
than such an article as the cradle of a
white child.
To the north of us as we travelled was
q large Indian reservation, and, at more
than one station, saw them crouching
about the building; but / should not
have mentioned them had it not been
that l saw a white man trying to buy q
cradle from a squaw.
He offered twenty dollars for it, but
she would not even turn her head to
look at the money. 1t is quite posi-
BILE that the mother thought he was
bargaining for the papoose as well as
the cradle. But l was assured that
these women sometimes expend an in
credible amount of labor, and, indeed,
for Indians, of money also, upon their
papoose- panniers.
One case was vouched for, of an offer
OF Sl2O being refused, the Indians
stating that there was $50 worth of
beads upon the work of art, and that
it had taken eleven years to COM
plete it.
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Remarkable Tale OF n Cat.

Here 3 cat story which certainly is
not outdone in the evidence OF inteli-
gence it affords by any dog story that
has been told of late. and can be
vouched for. y istress tuss lives in n
family as its beloved pet and has much
careful attention. } ach year, when
the family goes into the country, Of
course Mistress luss goes too, and
thus she has become used to travelling
and its accompanying discomfort. She
has become used, also, to the approach
ing signs of migration. and knows whrt
it means when the carpets come mp and
trunks are packed. This PAR ocular
season Mistress us, being the happy
mother of II promising kitten, was very
anxious AMI nervous as the me for
fitting Or near, and at last became
so troubled that she attracted the at
tention OF the family bv her peculiar
behavior. On following her thay
found the cause. She had packed her
little one into partially filed trunk
lest it should he overlooked in moving
Dos on Post.
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ny PERrINAx.

Mourad Ehendisiid piously obey
Inc Koran Q precepts. ana did To Allah" pray
That strife mongst faithful Mussulmans would
cease.
That no man should be recreant to his trust.
And at the muezzins call bow low in the dust,
And that the tribe OF faithful would increase.
He was farmer in Ioumania's PLAN;
He mourn ed a son, a sire, and brother slain,
And always looSel with faith on cart and sun
when his own grief was heavy in his breast
He always had kind words for the oppressed,
And never ceased to pray Gods viii DO done.
Mourad was old-some seventy years had sped
since first the sun had shone upon his head;
His wives were three his children were thres
score:
His sons we're soldiers. and were in that fight
Decreed by the great Sultan 20 be right
Loyal and Grave the Turkish arms they bore.
Then came the news from Plevnas battlefield
How many Turkish warriors had t. yield.
Tho mon from Moscow had the battle won;
The blood Of Turkish chiyalry was splllod
Mourads six sons were in that battle killed -
The weeping father said Gods will be done
Mourad went home hoping the news untrue
Prayed unto heaven, then read the Moran
through.
Retired. ana dreamed OF cruel Plevna's fight
He saw mis- sons all armored for the fray
Their swords were bright, their step and Ian
As men who know they are in the right.
The morning sun that shono on Mourads heal
Confirmed the news that his six sons We're
dead.
Mourad does nothing now but weep and pray ;
He anxious waits that long-promsed pence;
He hopes that war will then forever cease.
Why should the sons of men each other slay'
Join we the Turk and 70 his prayer give scope /;
Unto mankind hold out that blessed hope
That war and all its evils now shall cease.
And let us hope that all our future days
shall have in them nothing but cause for
praise
May in this world be universal peace
-Ameytcdn Commercial Traveller.
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HISTORICAL.

THE Legion of Honor was created by
Bonaparte, in 1902.
The first European porcelain was
made at Dres len about 100.
LACE of very delicate texture was
made in France and Flanders in 1860.
IN Greece, according to Herodotus,
Scion was the first who pronounced
funeral Orat on, $50 Il. {.
The Ionic order of architecture was
invented by the Ionians about 1850 b.
c., as an improvement on the Doric.
THE overland mail travelled first
through Mont Gents Tunnel to Brindi-
81, Jan. 5, 1872, saving twenty-four
hours time.
The song of Moses on the deliver
ance of the lsraelites, and their pass
age through the Red Sea, 149l b. c.,
is the most ancient poetry extant.
PERJURY was punished by the early
Romans by throwing the offender
from the Tarpe;an precipice, and the
Greeks set a mark of infamy upon
him
The Duke of Norfolk and Charles
James Fox, at dinner IN 1893, gave as
toast, The majesty of the people,"
for which their names were struck off
the list of privy- councillors.
POTASSIUM, q remarkable metal, was
discovered by Sir Humphrey Davy,
VINO first succeeded in separating it
from its oxide, potash, in the labora-
tory of the Royal Institution, London,
about October 10, 1907.
THE isochronous property of the
pendulum is said to have been applied
to clocks by Calico about 1859, and by
Richard Harris about 1641. George
Graham invented the compromising
pendulum in 1715.
The Koran, the sacred book of the
Mohametans, was written about A. ID.
60, by Mahomet, who asserted that it
had been revealed to him by the Angel
Gabriel. 1t was published by Abu
Beke about 635.
On the day, in SO, that King Arthur
won a great victory over the Saxons,
Devil, or David, afterward Archbishop
of st. Davids, ordered the Welsh SOL
diers to place leek in their caps. It
is to this circumstance that the leek's
selection as the emblem of Wales is
ascribed.